Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linuxinterfaceforon access scanning

Theodore Tso
2008-08-05T18:57:15Z

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:38:23PM -0400, Press, Jonathan wrote:
> Is your point that Linux and Unix machines are less vulnerable to
> viruses? If so, that's not relevant to my point at all. A Unix machine
> can be a carrier, passing infections on to other vulnerable platforms
> (guess which one). An enterprise security system sees the entire
> enterprise as an integrated whole -- not just individual machines with
> their own separate attributes and no impact on each other at all.

Sure, but if that's the case, you don't need to have a blocking open()
interface. Having inotify tell your application that a file
descriptor that had been opened for writing has been closed
(IN_CLOSE_WRITE) should be quite sufficient.

- Ted